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Quotes by Rwandan Authors

"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."

"It's natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to value those less fortunate than you are."

"Pain is the University of Life."

"The powerful have no conscience."

"You are received the way you present yourself."

"Love is always based on self-interest."

"The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals."

"Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means."

"Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity."

"If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction."

"If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs."

"To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide."

"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth."

"Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction."

"Opportunity and risk come in pairs."

"When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons."

"Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home."

"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."

"I intend to achieve my goals during my lifetime, but if I fail, I will not rest even in the afterlife."

"You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with."

"If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself."

"A good head and a bad heart make a good politician."
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